Nashville Strip Clubs: Hit Song or Ice Cream: Tough Choice

18 05 2012

I stayed home and wrote the song. The song that I almost didn’t write became one of my most famous and successful songs and was one of the main reasons, I believe, why I was inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame many years later. A great big lesson that my new songwriting gig was going to be a hard taskmaster.
I believe I was given a very good work ethic by my Dad but…come on! Thinking that the next song I write might always be the one that wins the lottery for me makes me either a) roll up my sleeves and throw myself into each day with a renewed sense of purpose or b) cry softly into my pillow every morning, squeezing my eyes shut against the light streaming into my bedroom.
Every Ferris Bueller day I take better be worth it because it’s a song I didn’t write. (This is why every time I DO take a day off it is spent either at the zoo or a strip club. I’m kidding…I’m kidding. Zoos scare me)

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Nashville Strip Clubs: Obama Teases Secret Service at White House Correspondents Dinner

29 04 2012

Jimmy Kimmel, the night’s featured entertainer, also picked up on the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia, saying he told the Secret Service that for $800 he wouldn’t joke about them, “but they only offered 30.”
“If this had happened on President Clinton’s watch, you can damn well bet those Secret Service agents would have been disciplined with a very serious high five,” Kimmel said.
Eight Secret Service officers have been fired and three disciplined, and a dozen military personnel have had their security clearances suspended, in the unfolding investigation of sexual misbehavior by agents who traveled to Cartagena, Colombia, this month to set up security for Obama’s visit. The agency says it is also looking into whether agents hired prostitutes and strippers in El Salvador in advance of the president’s trip last year.

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Nashville Strip Clubs: New Secret Service rules on alcohol, unsavory bars

27 04 2012

The new rules did not mention prostitutes or strip clubs, but they prohibit employees from allowing foreigners – except hotel staff or foreign law enforcement colleagues – into their hotel rooms. They also ban visits to “non-reputable” establishments, which were not defined. The State Department was expected to brief Secret Service employees on trips about areas and businesses considered off-limits to them.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano assured senators earlier this week that the incident in Colombia appeared to be an isolated case, saying she would be surprised if it represented a broader cultural problem. The next day, the Secret Service acknowledged it was investigating whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of Obama’s visit last year to El Salvador. Prostitution is legal in both Colombia and El Salvador.

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Nashville Strip Clubs: Richard Land says activists using Trayvon Martin to get out the vote

3 04 2012

Land said even if he is proven to be innocent, Zimmerman will never fully regain his reputation. He compared the case to Richard Jewell, the security guard called a hero for detecting a bomb in Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics and then later investigated and cleared as the bombing suspect.
“The closest thing to this is the Duke lacrosse players,” Land said. “And let me tell you something, those Duke lacrosse players would be marked as misogynists and racists for the rest of their lives had they not been privileged, had they not been wealthy enough, and I mean really wealthy, to have parents that could hire lawyers that could stand up to an outrageously irresponsible district attorney and a university faculty that was all too willing to buy into the racial victimization of the black stripper at the expense of the white male lacrosse players, until it was shown that they were innocent and that the district attorney was playing politics with this.”

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Nashville Strip Clubs: Richard Land says activists using Trayvon Martin to get out the vote

3 04 2012

Land said even if he is proven to be innocent, Zimmerman will never fully regain his reputation. He compared the case to Richard Jewell, the security guard called a hero for detecting a bomb in Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics and then later investigated and cleared as the bombing suspect.
“The closest thing to this is the Duke lacrosse players,” Land said. “And let me tell you something, those Duke lacrosse players would be marked as misogynists and racists for the rest of their lives had they not been privileged, had they not been wealthy enough, and I mean really wealthy, to have parents that could hire lawyers that could stand up to an outrageously irresponsible district attorney and a university faculty that was all too willing to buy into the racial victimization of the black stripper at the expense of the white male lacrosse players, until it was shown that they were innocent and that the district attorney was playing politics with this.”

See the full article from “The Christian Century”




Nashville Strip Clubs: Richard Land says activists using Trayvon Martin to get out the vote

2 04 2012

Land said even if he is proven to be innocent, Zimmerman will never fully regain his reputation. He compared the case to Richard Jewell, the security guard called a hero for detecting a bomb in Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics and then later investigated and cleared as the bombing suspect.
“The closest thing to this is the Duke lacrosse players,” Land said. “And let me tell you something, those Duke lacrosse players would be marked as misogynists and racists for the rest of their lives had they not been privileged, had they not been wealthy enough, and I mean really wealthy, to have parents that could hire lawyers that could stand up to an outrageously irresponsible district attorney and a university faculty that was all too willing to buy into the racial victimization of the black stripper at the expense of the white male lacrosse players, until it was shown that they were innocent and that the district attorney was playing politics with this.”

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Nashville Strip Clubs: NFL Draft: A Look Back at the Tennessee Titans’ Historic First-Round Draft Picks

31 03 2012

With the sixth pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, the Tennessee Titans selected Adam “Pacman” Jones, cornerback out of West Virginia.
When it was apparent that Woolfolk couldn’t play, the Titans had a decision to make. Antrel Rolle and Adam Jones were the top two cornerbacks coming out in the draft. The Titans went with Jones.
Pacman had a difficult rookie year on and off the field. He didn’t make an interception and had multiple run-ins with the cops. During his second season, he tied a team record with three punt return touchdowns and finished with four interceptions.
Jones was suspended for the 2007 season after a shooting incident in a Las Vegas strip club. The Titans cut bait and traded him to the Cowboys before the 2008 season. He was suspended for part of the 2008 season, didn’t play in 2009 and resurfaced with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2010.

See the full article from “Bleacher Report”




Nashville Strip Clubs: House Panel Kills Bill To Create Tennessee Stripper Tax

30 03 2012

House Panel Kills Bill To Create Tennessee Stripper Tax
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A House panel has killed a bill seeking to tax strippers to pay for a reduction in the state tax on gold coins, bullion and investment income.
The judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday sent the measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Joe Carr of Lascassas to a study committee after the Legislature adjourns for the year.
Carr said the increased tax on strippers and strip clubs reflects the negative effect they have on property prices in neighborhoods where they are located.
Republican Representative Jon Lundberg of Bristol questioned the need for reducing the tax on collectors’ items like gold coins. Supporters claimed the measure would bring more coin shows to the state.

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Nashville Strip Clubs: House panel kills bill to create stripper tax

30 03 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn.
— NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – An effort to tax strippers and adult businesses to help pay for a reduction in the state tax on coins, bullion and investment income has failed for the year.
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday killed the bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Carr, R-Lascassas, by sending it to a study committee after the Legislature adjourns for the year.
The bill sought to impose a 20 percent sales tax on items sold at “sexually oriented businesses,” and to require strippers to pay a privilege tax to work in Tennessee. Carr said he based the tax proposal on studies showing that adult businesses depress property values by a similar amount.
“This legislative body in years past has done this before, it has raised the taxes where one area was not paying their share based on the economic blight they might serve to a community, and we are redistributing this to another area that was overly taxed,” he said. “That’s exactly what we’re doing here.”

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Nashville Strip Clubs: Tenn. House panel kills stripper tax bill

29 03 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—
An effort to tax strippers and adult businesses to help pay for a reduction in Tennessee’s state tax on coins, bullion and investment income has failed for the year.
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday killed the bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Carr, R-Lascassas, by sending it to a study committee after the Legislature adjourns for the year.
The bill sought to impose a 20 percent sales tax on items sold at “sexually oriented businesses,” and to require strippers to pay a privilege tax to work in Tennessee. Carr said he based the tax proposal on studies showing that adult businesses depress property values by a similar amount.
“This legislative body in years past has done this before, it has raised the taxes where one area was not paying their share based on the economic blight they might serve to a community, and we are redistributing this to another area that was overly taxed,” he said. “That’s exactly what we’re doing here.”

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